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Published: 30th July 1992
ISBN: 9780415078511
Number Of Pages: 368
The Cold War is often considered to be the quintessential intelligence conflict, and a range of studies have focused on the diplomacy of this critical period. Yet over the last two decades, intelligence has remained the "missing dimension" of Britain's Cold War history. "British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-1951" examines the clandestine aspects of British policy, with particular emphasis on the key themes of intelligence and strategy.
The contributors, an international group of North American and British scholars, present an authoritative picture of Britain's post-World War II intelligence activities based on previously neglected documentary sources. They provide a detailed examination of the role of the British defectors Philby, Burgess, and Maclean, Anglo-American special operations against the Eastern bloc, strategic struggles between Prime Minister Attlee and Montgomery and the military dimension of Britain's plans for leadership of a "Third Force" as a rival to the Soviet and American blocs.
The Cold War is a prominent issue of our time, and this book will be of interest to students of international and modern political history, political science, international relations, and intelligence history.
| Notes on contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| List of abbreviations | |
| Introduction: Intelligence, strategy and the Cold War | p. 1 |
| Intelligence | |
| Secret intelligence for a post-war world: reshaping the British intelligence community, 1944-51 | p. 15 |
| Anglo-Soviet intelligence co-operation and roads to the Cold War | p. 50 |
| Covert action within British and American concepts of containment, 1948-51 | p. 65 |
| A very British crusade: the Information Research Department and the beginning of the Cold War | p. 85 |
| British Cold War defectors: the versatile, durable toys of propagandists | p. 111 |
| Strategy | |
| 'We must cut our coat according to our cloth': the making of British defence policy, 1945-8 | p. 143 |
| The 'Western Union' concept and British defence policy, 1947-8 | p. 166 |
| Britain's strategy for Europe: must West Germany be rearmed? 1949-51 | p. 193 |
| In the back room: Anglo-American defence co-operation, 1945-51 | p. 215 |
| The rise and decline of a strategic concept: the Middle East, 1945-51 | p. 236 |
| British strategy and the end of Empire: South Asia, 1945-51 | p. 275 |
| South East Asia and British strategy, 1944-51 | p. 308 |
| Select bibliography | p. 333 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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ISBN: 9780415078511
ISBN-10: 0415078512
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 368
Published: 30th July 1992
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 16.51
x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.77
Edition Number: 1
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